Apple iPhone 3.0: The big takeaways

It’s all about the App Store. Apple demonstrated new business models for the App Store including subscription payments. Magazine subscriptions, additional levels to games and eBooks are all possible. Renewals are all a part of something dubbed in-App purchases. In a nutshell, iPhone 3.0 software will enable a lot of a la carte purchases on the fly.

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  iPhone 3.0's hidden features

  Jason D. O'Grady:Apple’s Scott Forstall mentioned that iPhone 3.0 has 100 new features, but he only demonstrated about 20. So what are the other 80 missing features?
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  Apple's iPhone 3.0 event - beyond the live blog

  Sam Diaz: Apple packs 100 new features and 1,000 new APIs into this update of the iPhone and iPod Touch OS. The developer beta is available now; iPhone 3.0 will ship this summer and be free to all iPhone 3G customers.

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  My list of iPhone grievances 3.0

  Jason D. O'Grady: Apple made some nice headway with its preview of iPhone 3.0, but it's certainly not going to be everything to all people - nothing ever is.
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  Will you buy an iPhone now?

  Matthew Miller: I followed the live coverage of the iPhone 3.0 event over at GDGT Live and am leaning more and more towards picking up an iPhone 3G for myself soon.

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  Apple iPhone OS 3.0 preview event - Live!

  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: There were a slew of new announcements at Apple’s iPhone 3.0 presentation by Apple on Tuesday.

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  The big (and ignored) bit in Apple's iPhone 3.0 announcements

  David Morgenstern: Copy and paste is nice but I was most encouraged by API support for the iPhone’s dock connector, which will let third-party developers talk to their mobile apps over a wire.

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  Wrapping up Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 event

  Jason D. O’Grady: Scott Forstall, Apple VP of iPhone software announced that 100 new features and 1,000 new APIs are coming to iPhone OS 3.0 this summer.

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